pdf-extract-references
pdf-extract-references is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by JabRef in the jabref repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates pdf-extract-references F (15/100) and the safety scan rated it unsafe; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Unsafe. This skill has patterns associated with malicious or dangerous behaviour. We do not recommend running it.
Extracts the works a paper cites - parses the "References" section of PDF papers with JabRef's jabkit CLI and outputs the cited entries as BibTeX, via offline rule-based parsing (IEEE-style numbered references), a GROBID service, or an experimental LLM mode.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 15 / 100
- Safety
- Unsafe
- GitHub stars
- 4,720
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Our review
- Architecture
- 94 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- Critical-risk patterns
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
What the scanner flagged
- pipe remote script to shell
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